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No Ambubachi Mela at Kamakhya temple this year due to COVID-19 pandemic

| @indiablooms | Jun 05, 2021, at 05:59 pm

Dispur/IBNS: In view of COVID-19 pandemic, the Kamakhya temple management authority in Guwahati has decided not to organize the annual Ambubachi Mela this year also in a festival manner.

The annual Ambubachi Mela was not celebrated last year also.

The temple management authority said that the doors of the historic temple will remain closed till June 30.

Kamakhya temple Doloi (head priest) Kabindra Prasad Sarma said that this year’s Ambubachi Mela will be observed behind the doors and only the rituals will be performed in the temple which will be started from June 22 till June 25.

“Due to COVID-19 pandemic, last year’s Ambubachi Mela was also not organized in a festival manner. The doors of the temple will remain closed for devotees till June 30,” Kabindra Prasad Sarma said.

The Ambubachi Mela is an annual Hindu Mela (fair) held at Kamakhya temple and it is the celebration of the yearly menstruation course of goddess Kamakhya and the mela starts on June 22 every year at Kamakhya temple.

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